Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. The US and China have joined the Paris Agreement. Here’s what it means for the climate. When 175 countries and parties officially signed the Paris Agreement on Earth Day this year, it marked a critical moment in the fight to end climate change. But signing the agreement in front … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Central. By Andrea Thompson In what has become a common refrain this year, last month ranked as the hottest August on record, according to NASA data released Monday. Not only that, but the month tied July as the hottest month the world has seen in the … [continued]
Originally published on Skeptical Science. By Dana Nuccitelli A new study by a team of sociologists at Oklahoma State University has found political polarization on climate change is growing in the United States. Today’s Republicans are less likely than they were a decade ago to accept that the effects of … [continued]
Economic advancement goes through stages: agriculturally dominated societies to industrially dominated societies to consumer and information worker societies. It’s typically only as the shift to the consumer and information worker societies occurs that significant negative externalities such as climate change and air pollution start to be truly addressed by most … [continued]
Climate change ‘skeptics’ who have been pushed off of all their denialist positions by ugly empirical facts often resort to arguments that climate change will actually be positive. One argument they make is that output from agriculture will increase globally, with especially far northern areas benefiting from increased arability. Are they right? … [continued]
Randall Munroe might be a name some of you don’t know, but most everyone will, at one time or another, have come across his greatest creation — the webcomic XKCD. Munroe is not just a web cartoonist, however, having started his career as contract programmer and roboticist for NASA at … [continued]
A new Reuters report nails major US corporations for supporting climate change denial with campaign contributions, but there are bigger fish to fry.
On Monday, September 7 (the Labor Day holiday in the US), the government of Mexico announced that the nation “south of the border” would soon join the growing ranks of countries that have adopted cap and trade to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Mexico’s pilot carbon pricing program will begin … [continued]
Originally published on Skeptical Science. By Dana Nuccitelli Climate scientist James Annan and climate economist Chris Hope made a nice sum this year for a bet they made on global warming in 2008. As Hope tells the story: The record warmth of 2015 just made me £1,334 richer. While the … [continued]
On a recent article about California’s carbon reduction progress, Kurt Lowder dropped the comment, “I am surprised that I have not read much about how California will benefit economically for switching to EVs.” Although I’m fond of using the following chart when writing or presenting about the benefits of electric vehicles, … [continued]
